Global Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) Market to Have Valuation of US$5.3 bn by 2020

The expansion of the healthcare industry in itself will present an enormous growth opportunity for the global radiofrequency identification (RFID) market, says Transparency Market Research in its latest report. The business intelligence firm’s study, titled ‘‘Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 – 2020,” states that the market will log a healthy CAGR of 13.90% from 2014 through 2020. Growing at this rate, the market will rise from its 2013 valuation of US$1.9 bn to reach US$5.3 bn by 2020.

One of the most commonly used wireless communication technologies today, RFID finds wide-ranging applications that are not limited to a particular industry. In the healthcare sector, specifically, the uses of RFID range from counterfeit drug tracking to equipment and patient identification to monitoring blood transfer and other critical functions in the supply chain.

The report segments the global RFID market in healthcare based on component type into RFID tags, RFID readers, RFID printers, RFID cabinets, and RFID middleware. By application, the market is segmented into: medicine tracking, supply chain, people identification and tracking, equipment tracking, and medical report, samples and blood transfer tracking. Likewise, by geography, the market is segmented into: Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Rest of the World.

However, the adoption as RFID as a monitoring and tracking tool in the healthcare industry hasn’t been especially encouraging in the recent past because barcodes have already established themselves as the preferred method for this very purpose. Companies offering RFID products and solutions to the healthcare sector, will, thus face tough competition from barcode technology in the coming years. The report’s authors, however, state that despite these hurdles, there is now heightened awareness about the long term benefits of RFID, which include cost savings, improved accuracy, and enhanced automation. These factors will see entities in the healthcare sector adopt radiofrequency identification, more so in mature markets.

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